Manatí 140-room hotel plan grows to 100,000 sq ft on a larger lot
A six-level hotel with 140 rooms and about 100,000 square feet of construction area is proposed for land at Carr. PR-686, Km 2, Sector Guayaney, Bo. Coto Norte, Manatí. Its infrastructure recommendation request, filed October 15, 2026, is recorded as approved. This is an early step: the request checks whether infrastructure is available for a project, and comes before any construction permit.
The filing, case 2025-642977-SRI-335134, carries the project name Desarrollo Turístico y Recreativo en Manatí and names Home2 Suites By Hilton Ramey Resort, INC. as the owner. Besides the hotel, it proposes two recreational parks for public use. A request with the same description, filed two days earlier, has no recorded status.
Other steps under the same case are open: its environmental recommendation and its location consultation are both pending, while an environmental assessment determination under the same case is recorded as approved.
The same hotel, one lot over and bigger
This is the second hotel plan at this roadside address. In 2024, a project named HOME2 SUITES BY HILTON MANATÍ proposed the same 140 rooms in a five-level building of about 65,650 square feet, on the 8,765 m2 lot next door.
That plan filed three recommendation requests from September to November 2024, covering environment, land use and infrastructure, each recorded as approved. It stalled at the next step: its location consultation, filed May 13, 2025, was archived.
The new plan keeps the room count, adds a level and about 34,350 square feet of floor area, and moves to the larger lot, 87,019 m2 (about 21.5 acres) by its deed and tax roll.
The land
The Puerto Rico Land Use Plan classifies the lot as specially protected rural land. It lies outside the flood zone, about 2.7 km from the coast.
Its last recorded sale was on May 4, 2011, for $600,000, to a private buyer. The same buyer bought the lot next door that day for $200,000. Neither lot has a later recorded sale, to the hotel's owner or to anyone else.
The lot has been planned for before. A passive recreation park filed for an environmental categorical exclusion on August 23, 2022, recorded as approved, but its filing of October 25, 2022 to split off a lot of about 7,880 m2 is recorded as archived.
Coto Norte already has a hotel: the Hyatt Place Hotel & Casino, about 1.8 km from the site, whose construction permit describes a new hotel of 104 rooms. Its single business permit filings of December 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are each recorded as approved.
